Boko Haram Insurgency, Internally Displaced Persons and Humanitarian Response in Northeast Nigeria

Abstract

Boko Haram Islamists, which has run riot for almost a decade in the Northeast stronghold have displaced more than 3 million persons across the Nigeria and have rendered about three-hundred thousand people refugees in the neighbouring countries. Despite the effort by the government and the international donor agencies toward supporting the IDPs, it is evident that there is a humanitarian deficit as many of these people live under poor humanitarian conditions in and out of the camps. This essay interrogates the social, political and economic dynamics associated with the IDPs and humanitarian response in line with the Kampala Convention for the protection and assistance of IDPs. In conclusion, it proffers possible recommendations towards improving and ameliorating the enormous challenges arising from the internal displacement in Nigeria.